- I OpenACS For Everyone
- I.1 High level information: What is OpenACS?
- I.1.1 Overview
- I.1.2 OpenACS Release Notes
- I.2 OpenACS: robust web development framework
- I.2.1 Introduction
- I.2.2 Basic infrastructure
- I.2.3 Advanced infrastructure
- I.2.4 Domain level tools
- I.1 High level information: What is OpenACS?
- II Administrator's Guide
- II.2 Installation Overview
- II.2.1 Basic Steps
- II.2.2 Prerequisite Software
- II.3 Complete Installation
- II.3.1 Install a Unix-like system and supporting software
- II.3.2 Install Oracle 10g XE on debian
- II.3.2.1 Install Oracle 8.1.7
- II.3.3 Install PostgreSQL
- II.3.4 Install AOLserver 4
- II.3.5 Quick Install of OpenACS
- II.3.5.1 Complex Install OpenACS 5.3
- II.3.6 OpenACS Installation Guide for Windows2000
- II.3.7 OpenACS Installation Guide for Mac OS X
- II.4 Configuring a new OpenACS Site
- II.4.1 Installing OpenACS packages
- II.4.2 Mounting OpenACS packages
- II.4.3 Configuring an OpenACS package
- II.4.4 Setting Permissions on an OpenACS package
- II.4.5 How Do I?
- II.4.6 Configure OpenACS look and feel with templates
- II.5 Upgrading
- II.5.1 Overview
- II.5.2 Upgrading 4.5 or higher to 4.6.3
- II.5.3 Upgrading OpenACS 4.6.3 to 5.0
- II.5.4 Upgrading an OpenACS 5.0.0 or greater installation
- II.5.5 Upgrading the OpenACS files
- II.5.6 Upgrading Platform components
- II.6 Production Environments
- II.6.1 Starting and Stopping an OpenACS instance.
- II.6.2 AOLserver keepalive with inittab
- II.6.3 Running multiple services on one machine
- II.6.4 High Availability/High Performance Configurations
- II.6.5 Staged Deployment for Production Networks
- II.6.6 Installing SSL Support for an OpenACS service
- II.6.7 Set up Log Analysis Reports
- II.6.8 External uptime validation
- II.6.9 Diagnosing Performance Problems
- II.7 Database Management
- II.7.1 Running a PostgreSQL database on another server
- II.7.2 Deleting a tablespace
- II.7.3 Vacuum Postgres nightly
- II.8 Backup and Recovery
- II.8.1 Backup Strategy
- II.8.2 Manual backup and recovery
- II.8.3 Automated Backup
- II.8.4 Using CVS for backup-recovery
- II.A Install Red Hat 8/9
- II.B Install additional supporting software
- II.B.1 Unpack the OpenACS tarball
- II.B.2 Initialize CVS (OPTIONAL)
- II.B.3 Add PSGML commands to emacs init file (OPTIONAL)
- II.B.4 Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)
- II.B.5 Install qmail (OPTIONAL)
- II.B.6 Install Analog web file analyzer
- II.B.7 Install nspam
- II.B.8 Install Full Text Search
- II.B.9 Install Full Text Search using Tsearch2
- II.B.10 Install Full Text Search using OpenFTS (deprecated see tsearch2)
- II.B.11 Install nsopenssl
- II.B.12 Install tclwebtest.
- II.B.13 Install PHP for use in AOLserver
- II.B.14 Install Squirrelmail for use as a webmail system for OpenACS
- II.B.15 Install PAM Radius for use as external authentication
- II.B.16 Install LDAP for use as external authentication
- II.B.17 Install AOLserver 3.3oacs1
- II.C Credits
- II.C.1 Where did this document come from?
- II.C.2 Linux Install Guides
- II.C.3 Security Information
- II.C.4 Resources
- II.2 Installation Overview
- III For OpenACS Package Developers
- III.9 Development Tutorial
- III.9.1 Creating an Application Package
- III.9.2 Setting Up Database Objects
- III.9.3 Creating Web Pages
- III.9.4 Debugging and Automated Testing
- III.10 Advanced Topics
- III.10.1 Write the Requirements and Design Specs
- III.10.2 Add the new package to CVS
- III.10.3 OpenACS Edit This Page Templates
- III.10.4 Adding Comments
- III.10.5 Admin Pages
- III.10.6 Categories
- III.10.7 Profile your code
- III.10.8 Prepare the package for distribution.
- III.10.9 Distributing upgrades of your package
- III.10.10 Notifications
- III.10.11 Hierarchical data
- III.10.12 Using .vuh files for pretty urls
- III.10.13 Laying out a page with CSS instead of tables
- III.10.14 Sending HTML email from your application
- III.10.15 Basic Caching
- III.10.16 Scheduled Procedures
- III.10.17 Enabling WYSIWYG
- III.10.18 Adding in parameters for your package
- III.10.19 Writing upgrade scripts
- III.10.20 Connect to a second database
- III.10.21 Future Topics
- III.11 Development Reference
- III.11.1 OpenACS Packages
- III.11.2 OpenACS Data Models and the Object System
- III.11.3 The Request Processor
- III.11.4 The OpenACS Database Access API
- III.11.5 Using Templates in OpenACS
- III.11.6 Groups, Context, Permissions
- III.11.7 Writing OpenACS Application Pages
- III.11.8 Parties in OpenACS
- III.11.9 OpenACS Permissions Tediously Explained
- III.11.10 Object Identity
- III.11.11 Programming with AOLserver
- III.11.12 Using Form Builder: building html forms dynamically
- III.12 Engineering Standards
- III.12.1 OpenACS Style Guide
- III.12.2 Release Version Numbering
- III.12.3 Constraint naming standard
- III.12.4 ACS File Naming and Formatting Standards
- III.12.5 PL/SQL Standards
- III.12.6 Variables
- III.12.7 Automated Testing
- III.13 CVS Guidelines
- III.13.1 Using CVS with OpenACS
- III.13.2 OpenACS CVS Concepts
- III.13.3 Contributing code back to OpenACS
- III.13.4 Additional Resources for CVS
- III.14 Documentation Standards
- III.14.1 OpenACS Documentation Guide
- III.14.2 Using PSGML mode in Emacs
- III.14.3 Using nXML mode in Emacs
- III.14.4 Detailed Design Documentation Template
- III.14.5 System/Application Requirements Template
- III.15 TCLWebtest
- III.16 Internationalization
- III.16.1 Internationalization and Localization Overview
- III.16.2 How Internationalization/Localization works in OpenACS
- III.16.4 Design Notes
- III.16.5 Translator's Guide
- III.D Using CVS with an OpenACS Site
- III.9 Development Tutorial
- IV For OpenACS Platform Developers
- IV.17 Kernel Documentation
- IV.17.1 Overview
- IV.17.2 Object Model Requirements
- IV.17.3 Object Model Design
- IV.17.4 Permissions Requirements
- IV.17.5 Permissions Design
- IV.17.6 Groups Requirements
- IV.17.7 Groups Design
- IV.17.8 Subsites Requirements
- IV.17.9 Subsites Design Document
- IV.17.10 Package Manager Requirements
- IV.17.11 Package Manager Design
- IV.17.12 Database Access API
- IV.17.13 OpenACS Internationalization Requirements
- IV.17.14 Security Requirements
- IV.17.15 Security Design
- IV.17.16 Security Notes
- IV.17.17 Request Processor Requirements
- IV.17.18 Request Processor Design
- IV.17.19 Documenting Tcl Files: Page Contracts and Libraries
- IV.17.20 Bootstrapping OpenACS
- IV.17.21 External Authentication Requirements
- IV.18 Releasing OpenACS
- IV.18.1 OpenACS Core and .LRN
- IV.18.2 How to Update the OpenACS.org repository
- IV.18.3 How to package and release an OpenACS Package
- IV.18.4 How to Update the translations
- IV.17 Kernel Documentation
- V Tcl for Web Nerds
- V.1 Tcl for Web Nerds Introduction
- V.2 Basic String Operations
- V.3 List Operations
- V.4 Pattern matching
- V.5 Array Operations
- V.6 Numbers
- V.7 Control Structure
- V.8 Scope, Upvar and Uplevel
- V.9 File Operations
- V.10 Eval
- V.11 Exec
- V.12 Tcl for Web Use
- V.13 OpenACS conventions for TCL
- V.14 Solutions
- VI SQL for Web Nerds
- VI.1 SQL Tutorial
- VI.1.1 SQL Tutorial
- VI.1.2 Answers
- VI.2 SQL for Web Nerds Introduction
- VI.3 Data modeling
- VI.3.1 The Discussion Forum -- philg's personal odyssey
- VI.3.2 Data Types (Oracle)
- VI.3.4 Tables
- VI.3.5 Constraints
- VI.4 Simple queries
- VI.5 More complex queries
- VI.6 Transactions
- VI.7 Triggers
- VI.8 Views
- VI.9 Style
- VI.10 Escaping to the procedural world
- VI.11 Trees
- VI.1 SQL Tutorial
III.D Using CVS with an OpenACS Site
Add the Service to CVS - OPTIONAL.These steps take an existing OpenACS directory and add it to a CVS repository.
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Create and set permissions on a subdirectory in the local cvs repository.
[root root]#
mkdir /cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[root root]#chown $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[root root]# mkdir /cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME chown $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -
Add the repository location to the user environment. On some systems, you may get better results with .bash_profile instead of .bashrc.
[root root]#
su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$emacs .bashrc
Put this string into
/home/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/.bashrc
:export CVSROOT=/cvsroot
[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$
exit
logout [root root]# -
Import all files into cvs. In order to work on files with source control, the files must be checked out from cvs. So we will import, move aside, and then check out all of the files. In the cvs import command,
$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
refers to the cvs repository to use; it uses the CVSROOT plus this string, i.e./cvsroot/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
. "OpenACS" is the vendor tag, and "oacs-5-2-3rc1" is the release tag. These tags will be useful in upgrading and branching. -m sets the version comment.[root root]#
su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$cvs import -m "initial install" $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME OpenACS oacs-5-2-3rc1
N $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/license.txt N $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/readme.txt (many lines omitted) N $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/www/SYSTEM/flush-memoized-statement.tcl No conflicts created by this import [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ exit [root root]# su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME cvs import -m "initial install" $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME OpenACS oacs-5-2-3rc1 exitMove the original directory to a temporary location, and check out the cvs repository in its place.
[root root]#
mv /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/tmp
[root root]#mkdir /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[root root]#chown $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[root root]#su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$cd /var/lib/aolserver
[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$cvs checkout $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
cvs checkout: Updating $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME U $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/license.txt (many lines omitted) U $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/www/SYSTEM/dbtest.tcl U $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/www/SYSTEM/flush-memoized-statement.tcl [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME aolserver]$exit
logout [root root]# mv /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/tmp mkdir /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME chown $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME cd /var/lib/aolserver cvs checkout $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME exit If the service starts correctly, come back and remove the temporary copy of the uploaded files.